adj.
certain to happen; unavoidable.
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informal totally predictable:
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the inevitable letter from the bank.
n.
(
the inevitable)
a situation that is unavoidable.
Derivative
- inevitability n.
- inevitably adv.
Etymology
ME: from L. inevitabilis, from in- ‘not’ + evitabilis ‘avoidable’.
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